Organic market gardener, author, speaker & mud herder
Wiltshire, UK
Joined October 2012
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I've just written 'cabbage shite butterfly' instead of 'cabbage white butterfly' & I'm still giggling to myself 5 minutes later #simplethings #makeyourownfun
Really important survey on Neurodiversity in Farming by @FarmersWeekly - fill it in if you can! I really believe that farming attracts neurodiverse folks - eg constant plate-spining is an ADHD super power survey.alchemer.eu/s3/907546…
I have to say, I do enjoy a spam email starting "Good day to you". Makes me feel like there are scammers sitting around in tweed and caps, and smoking pipes
If you are interested in the Precision Breeding legislation, you can download a template letter for MPs via @soilassociation website soilassociation.org/news/202…
Er, I'm HOPING that this is just a sympathetic glitch on the @bbcweather website...!? 😬#HurricaneWarning
I'm updating a book from 2013 for a new exciting edition, and have had to delete the phrase 'phone book' I casually mentioned in a paragraph back then. Does anyone under the age of 30 even know what a phone book is/was??! #immediateobsolesence #historyoficons
Proposed reforms to planning system consultation - make sure your voice is heard, particularly around rural housing, making it easier to build eco homes on farms etc gov.uk/government/consultati…
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You know when you read a news story and it just keeps getting better and better…?
docs.google.com/forms/d/1XD6… Avoiding Burnout among Farmers & Growers Survey: please fill in if you have a spare minute!
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“I’m planting a haycorn, so that it can grow up into an oak tree,” said Piglet. “It’s a very difficult thing, planting, unless you know how to do it,” and he put the acorn in the hole he had made, and covered it up with earth, and jumped on it. ~A.A.Milne
#GardeningX
Tactical weeding: hoeing amongst the squashes, pulling out all fat hen & would rather have almost anything else - except the pernicious couch grass
'Joe Bloggs, who you might know, is on xxx social media' notifications - am I the only 1 who would be more likely to press 'Follow' if it read 'whom you might know'??! #everydaypedantry
No mention about training/upskilling by @RishiSunak on @BBCFarmingToday when asked about labour - talk about seasonal workers visa extention, automation, & linking welfare payments to work. How about investing in skills?! Need to make horticulture a viable progressive career
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I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops | Guy Singh-Watson theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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🔊 Innovative Farmers are welcoming new applications!
If you’ve got an idea to make your farm more profitable & sustainable, take part in a #fieldlab where you’ll receive research support & funding to test it out.
First round closes 31 July - apply here: innovativefarmers.org/get-in…
If only there was daily advice for female machinery operatives too #everydaysexism
Farm managers/head growers: please fill in this survey looking at employee/trainee/apprenticeship needs, helping to shape a future organic horticulture apprenticeship scheme docs.google.com/forms/d/1aiV…
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Ep.2 of the #OGPod comes out this Thursday! We talk to Kate Collyns of Grown Green about taking on land, buying tractors, and planting leeks!
Tune in via all main streaming devices.
Thanks to podcast partner @Ooooby and show sponsors ReAgTools, Vital Seeds and @BDACollege
Sensible indeed; wouldn't be an issue though if farmers got more for the food they produce
Some breaking news from @DefraGovUK
A sensible step & one that brings the SFI back into line with previous schemes that had these limits on plot size & overall %
It means the ELM budget will go further & buy more, whilst avoiding political pot holes
gov.uk/government/news/gover…
